Re: [cobalt-users] CGI-scripts and reading/writing files

["Jelmer Jellema" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikael Siirilä" >
> How, on RaQ4, can CGI-scripts be run on a GID that makes read/write
datafiles
> work with chmod 660 for a directory? What adjustments are safe and
commonly
> used in this case?
>

The scripts are run under the identity of the owner of the script, usualy
the site-admin. This owner can read and write files under the site-directory
or in his own homedirectory. So you could do something like

mkdir /home/sites/siteX/data
chown 700 /home/sites/siteX/data

the scripts could then savely read/write to files in this directory. The
could ofcourse create the file itself.

In perl, something like:
------ perl -----


my $home = (getpwuid($>))[7]; #owners home directory
my $sitedir = "$home/../.."; #site's directory
my $data = "$sitedir/data"; #some data directory for cgi-data

mkdir $data, 700;

#write some file
open MYFILE, "> $data/newfile.txt";
print MYFILE "hello world\n";
close MYFILE;

----- end of perl ----
Hope this is what you meant :)

Jelmer